"I opened up his eyes, and one of the eyes, his pupil was constricted and there was blood, and then on the other side, his head was swollen with a mark on his head," Pena said.

Pena asked Garcia and her mother how long the child had been lying there.

"She said six and a half hours, and then I kind of lost my cool and said, 'Six and a half hours? You guys are cleaning up a crime scene.' They were trying to get their story straight, and they were cleaning up a crime scene," Pena said.

Pena immediately called 911.

"I just can't believe that somebody I knew. It kind of shocks me. It just seems like a really bad dream," Pena said.

According to a criminal complaint, Garcia is accused of severely abusing the child, who WISN 12 News is only identifying by his first name, Traymonte over a two-week period in June.

Investigators said she beat him multiple times with her belt and shoe, punched him in the head, burnt him with cigarettes and made him clean up his own vomit.

Doctors said Traymonte is "gravely ill."

"He was a very sweet kid. All he wanted was love. That's all he wanted was love," Traymonte's aunt, Sylvannah Robinson, said.

Robinson's sister is the boy's biological mother, but she and the boy's father have been in and out of jail.

The child ended up with the boy's paternal grandmother, who asked his new girlfriend Garcia to watch him.

"It really did something to me because he's not just my nephew he's more like my son," Robinson said.

Garcia laughed in court and got into a shouting match with the boy's relatives earlier Monday.

According to investigators, Traymonte was Garcia's boyfriend's favorite child and because he'd had him with another woman, and that made Garcia angry.

After the hearing, the boy's family spotted Garcia being led back to jail, and that's when the shouting began.

A judge requested extra security at future hearings. Garcia's bail was set at $250,000.

Garcia's mother may also be charged in the case.

Doctors said there were too many bruises on Traymonte's body to count. He has a lacerated liver and burn injuries to his eyes and nose.

Right now, he's paralyzed with severe brain injuries.

West Allis police said they did not have prior contact with the family before this tragic situation.

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